Welcome to Stoke-on-Trent

The city of Stoke-on-Trent as the name suggests is located on the River Trent, in the county of Staffordshire, approximately 165 miles north-west of London and 57 miles south-east of Liverpool.

The city has a population of around 266,700. Administratively the City of Stoke-on-Trent covers an area of approximately 93 sq kms and which has a population of around 238,000.

It is internationally renowned for its pottery works which include Wedgwood, Royal Doulton, Spode and Aynsley, but as one expects from a large city it has excellent shopping, leisure and entertainment, and visitor facilities. There are some notable historic buildings, including the half-timbered Ford Green Hall built around 1580, which is the oldest house in the city, and the remains of an Anglo-Saxon cross can be seen in the churchyard of St Peter ad Vincula.

Stoke-on-Trent was the name given to the amalgamation of six famous Potteries towns, originally, in 1910, as a County Borough and then, in 1925, a fully-fledged City.

Historically the town's economy was based upon manufacturing and the pottery industry. The service industry is now the largest sector of the local economy, employing around 55% of all workers.

The name Stoke comes from the Old English 'stoc' meaning 'outlying farmstead or hamlet'. In the Domesday Book of 1086, it was listed as Stoche.